For millennia, bereaved people have tried to continue their relationship with the deceased through various artifacts, practices, and rituals. 2,300 years ago, the Confucian philosopher Xunzi described a ritual that enabled bereaved persons to interact with an impersonator of the deceased. When the telegraph was invented in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s, it […]
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